[Peace-discuss] Re: [UCprogressives] A question for you

Eric Jakobsson jake at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Sat Nov 6 17:18:23 CST 2004


By most standards of left vs. right, government and social policies in the 
50's were much farther right-wing than they are now.   And the 50's, of 
course, were followed by the 60's.  This is not from a student or scholar 
of history point of view---I was around then.

At 03:47 PM 11/5/2004 -0600, John Wason wrote:

>I was just wondering....does any of you who might be a student of history
>or American government happen to know the last time in American history
>when all three branches of the federal government were as right-wing, at
>the same time, as the situation we find ourselves in now?
>
>Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
>
>John Wason
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Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
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Biochemistry
Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
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University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
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Maryland, to be Director of the NIGMS Center for Bioinformatics and 
Computational Biology and Chair of the NIH Biomedical Information Science 
and Technology Initiative Consortium, but maintaining my research lab at 
Illinois by periodic commuting.  My usual schedule is four days a week at 
NIH and three days a week at Illinois.)





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